Yes because the law states clearly that you are "guilty until proven innocent"

a kid was dead, and they had nothing at that point beyond the persons word who killed him. In any other jurisdiction, he would have been detained for extensive questioning, and a thorough investigation undertaken. SPD basically took his statement at the scene and let him go home from what I have read.

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Originally Posted by KC_Connection
I am a pillowbiter.

I simply don't know enough about this case, but I started a thread in DC posing a question I'll ask here as well.

How did the media turn this into a white vs. black issue? A Hispanic guy killed a black kid. I know the last name is associated with white people, but that dude has more Hispanic in him than anything. How has this become a white vs. black issue? I don't get it...

the media is the media....that's what they do, blow everything out of proportion. Although the whole "****ing coon" thing with the 911 call thing fanned the flames.

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Originally Posted by KC_Connection
I am a pillowbiter.

a kid was dead, and they had nothing at that point beyond the persons word who killed him. In any other jurisdiction, he would have been detained for extensive questioning, and a thorough investigation undertaken. SPD basically took his statement at the scene and let him go home from what I have read.

Yep. If they'd just arrested him in the first place, I doubt there would even be much discussion about it today.

I'm still trying to figure out how this has become a race thing as well. Is Zimmerman a licensed KKK member? Did he have a minature burning cross hanging from his rear view mirror in his car?

Yeah, it doesn't really make a lot of sense. At worst Zimmerman might've assumed Trayvon was up to no good based partly on the fact that he was black. (Of course, walking around an area late at night that had been burglarized frequently while wearing a hoodie that obscured his face probably had something to do with it as well.) While that kind of racial profiling is not exactly PC, I'm a firm believer that everyone's a little bit racist. There's not really any evidence to suggest that Zimmerman was out to take down the black man or anything silly like that.

I'm with all of that. I'm just astounded at the stupidity of people allowing this to turn into a white vs. black issue. I mean, we all know that Blacks and Hispanics are racist toward each other as well. This is a Hispanic vs. Black issue, not white vs. black. At least, it should've been. None of it should matter, really. But this has gone down all wrong, and it's clear as **** to see to the naked eye. Yet, here we are.

No, Flopnuts... he was a "White Hispanic" whatever the **** that means.

Now you can follow people who "you" deem suspicious, confront them and when you start getting yo ass whooped for ****ing with them, you can shoot them.....Wow! Now, if you are black and live in a gated community and you have a visitor, they can't wear any urban wear or else someone like fat boy may kill them. The sad part is you can only go by what he said, which was a bunch of lies, because the other party is dead. Non-blacks do not understand the magnitude of something like this. Now, those that are truly racist have a license to kill young black men who "they" deem suspicious. You can just say "He did this or did that and I had to kill him, even though I followed him and confronted him" because the other party is dead. If you know history....That's scary people....